Flock CEO: If you want a crime-free society, be ready to give up your privacy

bdangubic

He’s right, the countries that have lowest crime rates have flock cameras everywhere and zero privacy, this is the way /s

syntaxing

“ Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” - Benjamin Franklin

verdverm

I'll take freedom and the cons that come with it. I doubt very much that crime-free is even possible, especially the oligarchy crimes

AngryData

Most common crime is wage theft, don't see how they are going to do anything about that.

xtajv

Infringing on 4th amendment rights sounds like a crime to me.

al_borland

Or just keep the people in jail who are committing most of the crime. When someone has been arrested a dozen times, we don’t need cameras tracking them to keep people safe, we need that person removed from polite society. Flock is a poor solution to a failure of the judicial system.

silverFork

Well there are many issues and that is ownership and who gets to see the data and who gets to delete the data. If it is ever going to work, the ownership has to be public and not private. The videos should be impossible to delete.. The camera spread should be the same everywhere and would collect data non-selectively and only in public spaces. The data could only become visible to viewers only if certain criteria's are met and not continuous.

fnordpiglet

Wait, we’ve already given away our privacy. Where’s our crime free society?

joshAg

cool. I don't want a crime-free society. It's not that I want crime, it's that at a certain point I'd rather allocate government attention/money/time at issues other than crime because the benefit to that other thing is greater than getting crime asymptotically closer to 0.

Woodi

Somehow "Minority Raport" was about crime... And stupidity build into oversight system. And under eg. communism where oversight is balooned to society self-harm you still have crime. And "bribery" is alias for communism and other dictatorships. So, it is just better to give up on Flock spy[hard]ware.

fifilura

So much stupidity from people who make every choice binary.

feverzsj

Says who hides his house on google map.

m463

or move to japan, which does thing a different way I remember being in a fast food restaurant. A lady left her purse on her table and went to the bathroom. 8 year old kids walk to school in the city (with backpacks almost as big as they are). or another way of thinking of it: what will be done for you will be done to you

nickphx

he is a real thought leader.. /s